Motivational Quotes

Leadership

Education is the mother of leadership.

- Willkie, Wendell L.

Best Quotes about Leadership

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Haggai, John

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Jaques, Elliott

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Patton, George S.

Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Diderot, Denis

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Sheehy, Gail

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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

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The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Evenius

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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

Jung, Carl

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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Patton, George S.

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Lao-Tzu

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

Confucius

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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Peters, Thomas J.

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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

Wanamaker, John

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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

Laura Preble

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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Dyer, Wayne

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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

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Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

Marx, Groucho

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Townsend, Robert

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Lippmann, Walter

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Naisbitt, John

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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Popularity is not leadership.

Marcinko, Richard